Splash and Dash: The perils of subsidy

Attributed Authors:
David Freddoso
Published:
Apr
2008

"Absolutely not," says Doug Koplow of the Cambridge, Mass.-based group
Earth Track. He pointed to the fact that biofuel plantations often
require the destruction of rainforests, causing greater net carbon
emissions and destroying animal habitats. “You can say we’re growing
crops for biofuels from pre-existing farmland, but then the offsetting
food production begins to cut into natural habitat," he added. “There's
a lot of concern that biofuels production is causing environmental
damage." Moreover, the world’s environmentalist community has all but lost faith in the idea that biofuels themselves help to begin with.